No matter how Zhao Deyan lobbied, Xu Shiji still returned to Anzhou with the spoils of war, and Tuli consciously went back to Bincheng, so that Bu Lishe, who had escaped on the road, returned to Lightning River to preside over the overall situation. Jieli Khan got the news, on the one hand, he was glad that the Lightning River was still in his hands, and on the other hand, he was also worried about the actions of the Great Sui, and this time the biggest benefit was still the Great Sui, plus the Turkic people who fled to the city, which was equivalent to an increase of more than 60,000 people at once.

The Hu people only believe in the strong, and the battle of Lightning River made Xue Yantuo, who had just become the overlord, lose nearly 70,000 soldiers and civilians, and he didn't know when he would be able to recover. The envoys of Murwei Guan Nan Dagong and Bulu hurried all the way to Zhuo County to meet Yang Chong, the king of Yue, and the great chief of Nanmurwei Ji Cao Li decided to lead 50,000 people from 25 tribes of Nanmurwei to attach to the Great Sui and served as the governor of the Murwei Governor's Mansion, becoming the third Metropolitan Governor after Agulang and Tuli.

Yang Chong still agreed with Ji Caoli's choice in accordance with the practice of officialdom and said: "We will help Murowei to build a city in the farming area and Daze City on the bank of the Kulunbo River, so that the people of Nanmuwei can live and work in peace and contentment, and while farming, they can rotate grazing in two places." Guan Nan Dagong, you go back and discuss with Ji Cao Li which city to use as the crushing ground of the five tribes of Murowei, just like the city of Bin, we can send people to help you with taxes. ”

Bulu immediately came forward to object, saying: "Lord, this matter is not proper, the people of Muwei often go into the mountains to live in earth caves in winter, and live in birch bark houses in summer, if they are in the city, the weather is cold and the ground is cold, I am afraid that the people will be injured by mistake." ”

Bulu is actually the representative of the Northern Murwei, and the affairs of the Southern Murwei have nothing to do with him, but Bulu understands that once these two cities are established, the various clans of the Murwei will naturally trade with the Southern Murwei for convenience. The five major alliances of Murowei, with more than 60,000 people in the nine divisions of the North Murowei are the strongest, and they have always been the first of the five major alliances.

Shi Pei, the right chief who accompanied the meeting, said coldly: "Lord Bulu is too worried, when you get to Anzhou, you can see what their house looks like after reconstruction, and our Dasui has the ability to build a private house there that is not cold in winter." If Lord Bulu had a heart, he would still be worried about the fact that after the Southern Murwei broke away from the Turks, the Northern Murmur Wei paid money to the Turks. ”

Bulu was speechless, Nanmurwei is the only tribe in the five tribes of Murwei that has complete fishing, hunting, farming and animal husbandry, and it is close to the Lightning River, so the annual payment of materials to the Turks accounts for half of the total number of the five tribes of Murwei, and the heavy burden of the Turks must be on the heads of other Murwei tribes.

Bulu was aggrieved in his heart, he didn't ask Guan Nan Dagong and Wang Ting about it, but Yang Chong, the king of Yue in front of him, didn't seem to have any interest in Bei Mur Wei, unlike treating Nan Mur Wei, greeting the Turks again and again, and establishing Ji Cao Qian's confidence in breaking away from the Turks. When he heard the announcement of Sima Mengzhen, the right marching army, he gave 3,000 sets of iron armor to Nanmurwei at one time, and Guan Nan Dagong knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank him, and Bulu's eyes were almost red; All the tribes of Murowei are mainly leather armor, and iron armor is something that they dare not think of.

This time, Xu Shiji reinforced the Lightning River and brought back 35,000 sets of armor, including 9,000 sets of armor of the old Sui army and 7,000 sets of iron armor of the Tiele people. Xu Shiji understood that there were many Hu tribes in the northeast, and there were too many places for Yang Chong to buy people's hearts, and there was no gift more precious than iron armor.

Yang Chong is not interested in Beimurwei now, because most of the 120,000 people in Beimurwei live in the mountains and forests, mainly nomadic and hunting, maybe the combat effectiveness is fine, but if it is managed, the effort spent is too great, and it is likely to be half the effort. After Yang Chong took the Southern Murwei, he valued the Omuro Wei, which was withdrawn from the Beihai Sea to the east of the Lightning River, and the Omuro Wei was mainly for animal husbandry and hunting, which was more suitable for agriculture than the Northern Murwei.

Omuro Wei withdrew from Beihai with only 8,000 people, and was treated as inferior by the Turks at the Lightning River, and is currently the target of the work of the Liaodong Jingluo Prefecture. In the process of retreating, only Nanmuro Wei sent troops to assist, and it is very likely that Nanmuro Wei will be attached to Nanmuro when the Lightning River is isolated and helpless; This time, when Xu Shiji was in the Lightning River, he had a conversation with Luo Danqi, the chief of Omurowei, on the grounds of observing the farming of the Lightning River, and the effect was good.

The establishment of the Murwei Governor's Mansion made Goguryeo really feel threatened, Yingzhou, Heishui Governor's Mansion, Murwei Governor's Mansion, Liaodong Jinglufu and Beji Clan threatened Liaodong from five different directions, and the 200,000 Goryeo troops in Liaodong were shrouded in the dark clouds of war and could only wait for them.

Jieli Khan was also very unhappy, this was digging a piece of meat from the palm of the Turkic hand, but considering the current predicament of the Lightning River, Jieli Khan still sent Lu Jilan to Zhuo County to send a letter of thanks to Yang Chong, hoping that the Great Sui could take care of the livelihood of the Turkic people of the Lightning River; Yang Chong understood that the fire in Jieli's heart would not be extinguished so easily, this time he was defeated by Xue Yantuo and the Hui Hui coalition army, and when the crisis came, all Jieli's flattering actions were to deal with the immediate difficulties. If you think that the Turks will follow the Great Sui from now on, it will be too cute.

In a word, interests come first, the Turks are not murderers, nor are they gentle sheep, the shortage of materials and the gap with the Central Plains make their hearts full of anger, from the khan to the small people below is an idea, to go to the place where the Han and Xianbei people live to rob. From Qimin Khan to Jieli Khan, they all wanted to change all this, and it was best to occupy the Central Plains like the Tuoba clan, but at least they had to live like the Han people in the areas under their control.

Yang Chong's step-by-step operation has loosened the Turks, especially among those Turkic nobles who have no future, and after careful planning, they are making money with Yang Chong and other Great Sui magnates. With the successive defeats of the Turks in the Great Sui and Xue Yantuo, and a large number of people in power died in the war, this part of the aristocracy gained more and more voice, and they were all in favor of uniting the Central Plains to control the northern part of the country.

Lu Jilan actually brought two specific problems, one was that the Lightning River needed food and other materials, and the other hoped that the Great Sui would return the more than 5,000 Turks abducted by the Turks. Lu Jilan understood that it was far better to negotiate with Yang Chong in person than to negotiate with the miser of Tuli, who had maintained the tolerance of superiors and victors over the years, and would give an acceptable answer in many non-principled negotiations.

(End of chapter)